bleary-eyes, barcamp, bebes, blogging and bed

A day of Bs.

bleary-eyes

I had a slow and painful start to Saturday, after a late night reading #blogeverdayofjune posts and more than my evening quota of the latest Sookie installment. I have an obscenely pink Hello Kitty alarm clock, which was bought for me as a joke, and which lives on the bottom shelf of my bedside table. I persist in using this really rather ugly alarm clock because the snooze button is Kitty herself: she’s about seven centimeters tall, and as a result, it’s really easy to lean over in the dark and smack the snooze button without looking. Snooze lasts for nine minutes (and as an aside, I am convinced that nine minutes is the optimum length of time for snoozing: five isn’t enough; ten seems to make me greedy for another hour; nine is just enough to make me feel like I’ve indulged myself, without making me late [correction: without making me any later than I was going to be anyway - the fact that I frequently mistype my name as Late is really rather Freudian]). So, although I should have been up at 6am to get ready to drive to Brisbane, instead, I dragged myself out of bed, bleary-eyed, at 7am, and promptly commenced whirlwind-ing round the house.

barcamp

I spent today at #barcampbne (aka BarCamp Brisbane). Plans (or unplans) have been in the pipelines for a couple of months and it all paid off today, with what I think was possibly the biggest BarCamp Brisbane has seen to date. It was a great day, with talks on topics as diverse as bell ringing and adult Aspergers, and a fish bowl on Agile. I didn’t actually get to see any presentations this time round (I was the meeter and greeter responsible for pointing all likely candidates towards the breakout rooms), but judging from the conversations in the hallways and the chatting at break times, I’m pretty sure everyone had a great day.

It made me think that it would great to do another PodCamp with a focus on getting the general public involved, similar to the one I facilitated for Gold Coast Libraries earlier in the year. (It was really great to see at least one person who was introduced to the unconference/Camp concept via PodCamp Gold Coast in attendance today at BarCamp. Public libraries FTW!) I’d love to do something in Brisbane later in the year… Anyone interested in helping out?

bebes

A pretty great day was topped off by making it home in time to hang out with my delicious niece and nephew for a bit before bedtime. Kids have a way of giving your perspective like nothing else.

blogging

It’s day five of #blogeverydayofjune, and I hoped today’s post would be in the form of live blogging from BarCamp. Alas, I got distracted by unorganising (and by the lovely company of a good friend), so I got to the end of the day without coming up with anything witty, or intelligent, or even remotely relevant, to say here. The reality is I’ve got nothing left in the tank tonight, so I decided that profundity could wait til a week day, and you’ve got this here post on all things B.

bed

And so it comes back to bed. Perhaps this post would have been more coherent, and perhaps it would have had more point, if I had not authored it from the comfort of my very yummy bed…

On that note…

buonanotte!